Despatch Running
Source text
Section titled “Source text”A scout is told to bring a note into a certain spot or house from a distance within a given time: other hostile scouts are told to prevent any message getting to this place and to hide themselves at different points to stop the despatch carrier getting in with it.
To count as a capture two scouts must touch the despatch runner before he reaches the spot for delivering the message.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1908)
- Printed pages: 114
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 114
- Read the automatic translation: sfb-021